DEALIGNMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dealignment mean? 

• DEALIGNMENT (noun)
  The noun DEALIGNMENT has 1 sense:

1. a process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties

  Familiarity information: DEALIGNMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEALIGNMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A process whereby voters are moved toward nonpartisanship thus weakening the structure of political parties

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("dealignment" is a kind of...):

physical process; process (a sustained phenomenon or one marked by gradual changes through a series of states)